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Authors: Huilin Wu @huilin_n and Jiwei Wang @jiwei_wang33
Title: UnCanny Home
Description: UnCanny Home explores the quiet negotiations Chinese immigrants make to transform rigid American housing into culturally resonant domestic spaces. What might appear “awkward” or “out of place” at first glance - like slippers stored in bathroom cabinets or altars placed on AC — are, in fact, canny adaptations that reveal immigrants’ spatial agency. The project captures these uncanny moments not to critique, but to illuminate the layered homemaking process across cultures. Through interviews, photographic documentation, and spatial analysis, the research presents stories from individual families shaped by distinct cultural, regional, and personal backgrounds. The exhibition amplifies these tensions through creative reinterpretations of real domestic conditions, reimagining how cultural rituals might inhabit overlooked, unclaimed, or unconventional spaces. These speculative spatial interventions make visible the hidden discomforts and quiet resilience embedded in immigrant domestic life. UnCanny Home neither romanticizes nor diagnoses but invites reflection on how home is redefined in translation and how design can better respond to diverse cultural ways of living.
Directed Research Group: HOMEMAKING is the Directed Research Lab led by Associate Professor Marcos Parga @marcospargap and Assistant Professor Omar Ali @soali
At the core of HOMEMAKING ’s mission is a commitment to rethinking domestic space — the places where we dwell and the relationships they embody. Through lectures, design studios, seminars, and workshops, we empower students to become active agents of change, questioning how architecture can respond to shifting social dynamics. The lab critically examines evolving ideas of labor, care, ownership, and family, understanding the home as a site of negotiation where political, cultural, financial, and environmental forces take shape.
https://homemaking.website/
School: Syracuse University, School of Architecture @syracuseu @syr_arch
Title: UnCanny Home
Description: UnCanny Home explores the quiet negotiations Chinese immigrants make to transform rigid American housing into culturally resonant domestic spaces. What might appear “awkward” or “out of place” at first glance - like slippers stored in bathroom cabinets or altars placed on AC — are, in fact, canny adaptations that reveal immigrants’ spatial agency. The project captures these uncanny moments not to critique, but to illuminate the layered homemaking process across cultures. Through interviews, photographic documentation, and spatial analysis, the research presents stories from individual families shaped by distinct cultural, regional, and personal backgrounds. The exhibition amplifies these tensions through creative reinterpretations of real domestic conditions, reimagining how cultural rituals might inhabit overlooked, unclaimed, or unconventional spaces. These speculative spatial interventions make visible the hidden discomforts and quiet resilience embedded in immigrant domestic life. UnCanny Home neither romanticizes nor diagnoses but invites reflection on how home is redefined in translation and how design can better respond to diverse cultural ways of living.
Directed Research Group: HOMEMAKING is the Directed Research Lab led by Associate Professor Marcos Parga @marcospargap and Assistant Professor Omar Ali @soali
At the core of HOMEMAKING ’s mission is a commitment to rethinking domestic space — the places where we dwell and the relationships they embody. Through lectures, design studios, seminars, and workshops, we empower students to become active agents of change, questioning how architecture can respond to shifting social dynamics. The lab critically examines evolving ideas of labor, care, ownership, and family, understanding the home as a site of negotiation where political, cultural, financial, and environmental forces take shape.
https://homemaking.website/
School: Syracuse University, School of Architecture @syracuseu @syr_arch
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